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Saturday, April 16, 2016

Weekend Writing Warriors April 17, 2016

Hello
all my fellow Warriors (and Snippeteers)!. :-)

Weekend Writing
Warriors is a weekly bloghop. Each week, participants sign up HEREat wewriwa.com, then post 8 to 10 sentences of
their work, published or unpublished, on their own blog to go live between noon, Saturday,
and 9:00 AM Sunday EST. Then we visit each other and read, comment,
critique, encourage--all those things that do a solitary writer's heart
good.
Snippet Sunday group from facebook--not us, but many of our participants
do both, can be found HERE

Setup:
Earth has been invaded by aliens. Our MC, Lily fled on foot. Her and her dog, Jobe, were captured by the aliens. I've
skipped ahead a couple of paragraphs. Lily
is on the ground with her wrists and ankles secured. It is dawn, and the alien commander and Lily just locked eyes. She demanded to know why.

His voice, as lifeless as his pale
face, was devoid of emotion—at least any she could detect. “It
is business.” He came closer, leaned over and ran his hand across the scab on
her cheek.

She jerked her head away and fairly
growled through gritted teeth, “Don’t touch me, you liar.”

A mocking grin appeared on his face.
“Liar?”

“Liar. If it were business, you’d take
no pleasure, but I see how much you enjoy it.”

One scaly eyebrow went up, and his smile
faded. “Your kind does not take pleasure in business?”

Thank you for reading
it. I learn from your comments--and I'm so grateful for any insight you share. Have a great week!

This snippet raised more questions than answers, as 10-sentence fragments are wont to do. What has he done that she is able to interpret as pleasure? What business do they have here? How does he speak such perfect English? Naturally, I know I need to read more to find out.